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I don't normally post things before I get the ok from a staff member, but I'm trying to save time because my regular ISP which was cable is shutdown, and I had to switch to "snail" dial-up. I hope you can give me some ideas as to why it's doing this, because I googled it, found lots of similar issue, but not one fixed the problem. I've tried to correct this by running SFC, chkdsk, un-installing/ re-installing both IE 7 and IE 8 and also SP3. Nothing worked, Windows Explorer is still crashing. Btw, I've scanned for viruses with 4 different Anti-virus scanners (I also have Avira Antivir Premium and ThreatFire installed) and Spybot S&D, Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, SuperAntispyware and Windows Defender. The system is clean. Any advice and suggestions you can give is welcome. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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Posted 03 October 2009 - 12:39 AM

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Update: I have uninstalled SP3, then re-installed it fresh from a manual download. After the reboot, it still gave me the following pop-up box... "Explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." Then another error box comes up. This one says, " Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." When I close the error box on this, the desktop freezes and anything that was imaged on the desktop won't close out. Only thing I can do is go into the Task Manager and end task on the two Dr Watson tasks that are running, otherwise they never complete and shutdown. Since this has happened, I have re-installed Internet Explorer 8. The first time I rebooted, VOILA!, no error boxes. Nada, nothing. System worked fine. Then I re-booted again to test and see if I could reproduce the error. Once again, the error boxes returned and I followed the same procedure as before to get Windows stable again. After that I rebooted again; guess what? No error boxes showed up. Explorer didn't crash, Dr Watson didn't run. The problem seems intermittent. It is not happening all the time now. The reason why this situation is unacceptable to me is that when Windows Explorer restarts, the icons that should appear in the task bar for the running programs at start up aren't all showing in the tray. They are running in the Task Manager, but their icons are not in the tray. Is there anyone that has a fix for this, it's driving me insane! Just one other question: When you run the Windows Protection System File Checker, is it a good idea to copy files from the Windows XP CD-Rom as it asks you to? I would think that would not help, in fact may even do more harm than good since the system files are updated whenever you upgrade the service packs to a newer version and you would be copying older files back into the system folders. Am I correct in assuming this and what is the solution? Thanks for anyone's assistance in advance~ MinstrelGeek